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Can confirm it compiles.

Found a short and quick guide on https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/ehp8lb/qvwm_i_love_windows_95_already/

Does not compile unfortunately :(

bitmaps/csmask_no.xbm:12:41: error: narrowing conversion of ‘224’ from ‘int’ to ‘char’ inside { } [-Wnarrowing]
main.cc: In function ‘void TrapSignal(int)’:
main.cc:787:43: warning: ISO C++ forbids converting a string constant to ‘char*’ [-Wwrite-strings]
       debug.TraceStack(DEBUGGER, qvArgv[0]);
                                           ^
main.cc: In function ‘void RestartQvwm(int, int, int)’:
main.cc:906:17: warning: ISO C++ forbids converting a string constant to ‘char*’ [-Wwrite-strings]
     qvArgv[0] = "qvwm";
                 ^~~~~~
main.cc:923:17: warning: ISO C++ forbids converting a string constant to ‘char*’ [-Wwrite-strings]
     argv[j++] = "-n";
                 ^~~~
main.cc:925:17: warning: ISO C++ forbids converting a string constant to ‘char*’ [-Wwrite-strings]
     argv[j++] = "-r";
                 ^~~~
main.cc:929:19: warning: ISO C++ forbids converting a string constant to ‘char*’ [-Wwrite-strings]
       argv[j++] = "-c";
                   ^~~~
make[3]: *** [Makefile:242: main.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/tmp/yaourt-tmp-pavel/aur-qvwm/src/qvwm-master/src'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:265: all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/yaourt-tmp-pavel/aur-qvwm/src/qvwm-master/src'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:160: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/yaourt-tmp-pavel/aur-qvwm/src/qvwm-master'
make: *** [Makefile:304: all-recursive-am] Error 2
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build qvwm.
==> Restart building qvwm ? [y/N]
==> -----------------------------

Adding CXXFLAGS+=' -std=gnu++98' before sh ./configure is enough to have it working.

This now requires CXXFLAGS="-Wno-narrowing" or something similar at the start of the configure line. Also, that sh there looks unusual -it isn't needed, is it?